Estudiar la dinámica espacio-temporal de la cobertura de vegetación nativa de los distintos ecosistemas terrestres de Venezuela y la región, e identificar los efectos que sobre ésta tienen los cambios climáticos y la historia en el uso de la tierra.
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Bollino M, Viloria ÁL, Padrón S & M Costa (2024) Taxonomic notes on the genus Catasticta Butler, 1870 and description of a new genus (Lepidoptera, Pieridae, Pierinae). Antenor 11(2):49-57.
Briceño-Linares JM, Aranguren J, Clarenda J, Díaz A, +9 autores & JP Rodríguez (2024) Research, management, and conservation of the yellow-shouldered amazon (Amazona barbadensis) across its range in the southern Caribbean and mainland Venezuela: 1980s to the present. Frontiers in Conservation Science 5:1444609. DOI: 10.3389/fcosc.2024.1444609.
Costa M, Viloria ÁL, Attal S, Benmesbah M, Neild AFE, Grishin NV, Kertész K & Zs Bálint (2024) Lepidoptera from the Pantepui. Part XVI. A new species of Thaeides Johnson, Kruse & Kroenlein, 1997 (Lycaenidae: Theclinae: Eumaeini). Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 116:275-295. DOI: 10.53019/AnnlsMusHistNatHung.2024.116.275.
Costa M, Viloria ÁL, Attal S, Neild AFE, Benmesbah M, Padrón S & M Bollino (2024)Lepidoptera from the Pantepui. Part XV. New Pieridae from the Cuao Range (Venezuela, Amazonas) (Pierinae, Pierini). Antenor 11(2):61-79.
Rodríguez JP (2024) Challenges and opportunities for the largest volunteer conservation science network. Oryx 58(6):681-682. DOI: 10.1017/S0030605325000043.
Sánchez-Mercado A, Moran L, Pineda MD, Cardozo-Urdaneta A & JP Rodríguez (2024) Monitoring change: a behavior-centered theory of change for effective demand reduction interventions. Conservation Science and Practice 6(10):e13222. DOI: 1111/csp2.13222.
Villarreal O, Ahumada-C D & E Flórez (2024) A glimpse into the diversity of Stygnus Perty, 1833: a new colombian species and additional records from South America (Opiliones, Stygnidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 970(1):203-229. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.970.2759.
Villarreal O, Ahumada-C D & GR Navas (2024) Exploring the diversity of Eutimesius Roewer, 1913: new species and records from Colombia and Venezuela (Opiliones, Gonyleptoidea, Stygnidae). Zoosystematics and Evolution 100(3):803-820. DOI: 10.3897/zse.100.120207.
Villarreal O & D Chamé-Vázquez (2024) Confirming the presence of Zimiris doriae Simon, 1882 (Araneae: Prodidomidae) in Venezuela and list of the spider species introduced in the country. Revista Chilena de Entomología 50(4):617-623.
Viloria ÁL (2024) Defective taxonomic descriptions and the electronic publication fashion. A comment on Braby et al. (2024) and a rectification. Anartia, Museo de Biología de La Universidad del Zulia (MBLUZ) (38):45-51. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13755846.
Viloria ÁL, Huan M, Gill AC & J Philip (2024) World entomological treasure in Australia. News of The Lepidopterists’ Society 66(3):128-129.
Viloria ÁL, Sánchez-Criollo L & YA Briceño (2024) Early records of Neomonachus tropicalis (Gray, 1850) in Venezuela (Mammalia, Pinnipedia: Phocidae). Registros antiguos de Neomonachus tropicalis (Gray, 1850) en Venezuela (Mammalia, Pinnipedia: Phocidae). Anartia, Museo de Biología de La Universidad del Zulia (MBLUZ) (39):47-51. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15011714.
Bezeng BS, Ameka G, Angui CMV, Atuah L, +19 authors, Rodríguez JP, Smit-Robinson H, Yessoufou K & V Savolainen (2025) An african perspective to biodiversity conservation in the twenty-first century. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 380(1917):20230443. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2023.0443
Brodie JF, Mohd-Azlan J, Chen C, Wearn OR, +17 authors, Rodríguez JP, Jetz W & MS Luskin (2025) Reply to: causal claims, causal assumptions and protected area impact. Nature 638(8052):E42-E44. DOI: 10.1038/s41586–024–08513–7
Colmenares PA, Moreno-González JA, Villarreal O & L Prendini (2025) New genus and species of short-tailed whipscorpion (Schizomida: Hubbardiidae) from the venezuelan Amazon. Zootaxa 5563(1):84-95. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5563.1.9.
Costa M, Viloria ÁL, Attal S, Benmesbah M, Orellana A, Neild AFE, Lamas G & P Blandin (2025) Lepidoptera from the Pantepui. Part XVII. A new subspecies of Caligo suzanna (Deyrolle, 1872) (Nymphalidae Satyrinae Brassolini). Antenor 11(4):151-184.
Delgado-Santa L & O Villarreal (2025) On the male genitalia of Calima MorenoGonzález & Villarreal, with description of a new colombian species (Schizomida: Hubbardiidae). Zootaxa 5563(1):73-83. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5563.1.8.
Reynolds SA, Beery S, Burgess N, Burgman M, +17 authors, Rodríguez JP, +4 autores & WJ Sutherland (2025) The potential for AI to revolutionize conservation: a horizon scan. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 40(2):191-207. DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2024.11.013.
Villarreal O, Delgado-Santa L & C Lasso (2025) Whip spiders (Arachnida, Amblypigi) from colombian caves: a review, new records and description of a new species. Subterranean Biology 52:1-28. DOI: 10.3897/subtbiol.52.150357.
CAPÍTULOS EN LIBROS PUBLICADOS 2020 – 2025
Nassar JM (2020) Cereus fricii. En: Huérfano A, Fedón I & J Mostacero (eds.) Libro rojo de la flora venezolana. 2da ed. Instituto Experimental Jardín Botánico, Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV). Caracas, Venezuela. Pp. 228.
Nassar JM, Aguirre LF, Rodríguez-Herrera B & RA Medellin (2020) Threats, status, and conservation perspectives for leaf-nosed bats. In: Fleming TH, Davalos L & M Mello (eds.) Phyllostomid bats, a unique mammalian radiation. The University of Chicago Press. Chicago, Illinois, USA. Pp. 435-456.
Nassar JM & NP Taylor (2020) Melocactus schatzli. En: Huérfano A, Fedón I & J Mostacero (eds.) Libro rojo de la flora venezolana. 2da ed. Instituto Experimental Jardín Botánico, Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV). Caracas, Venezuela. Pp. 231.
Nassar JM & NP Taylor (2020) Opuntia schumanni. En: Huérfano A, Fedón I & J Mostacero (eds.) Libro rojo de la flora venezolana. 2da ed. Instituto Experimental Jardín Botánico, Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV). Caracas, Venezuela. Pp. 232.
Oberle B, MacKinnon K & JP Rodríguez (2020) Foreword. In: Osipova E, Emslie-Smith M, Osti M, Murai M, Åberg U & P Shadie (eds.) IUCN World Heritage Outlook 3: a conservation assessment of all natural World Heritage sites. Gland, Switzerland. Pp. v-v.
Rodríguez JP (2020) Foreword. In: Taylor BL, Abel G, Miller P, Gomez F, von Fersen L, DeMaster D, Reeves RR, Rojas-Bracho L, Wang D, Hao Y & F Cipriano (eds.) Ex situ options for cetacean conservation. Report of the 2018 workshop, Nuremberg, Germany. Occasional Paper of the IUCN Species Survival Commission No. 66. IUCN. Gland, Switzerland. Pp. viii-ix. ISBN 978-2-8317-2051-7 (PDF), 978-2-8317-2071-5 (print). DOI: 2305/IUCN.CH.2020.SSC–OP.66.en.
Rodríguez JP (2021) Foreword. In: Eid E (ed.) Atlas of Jordan’s snakes. Amman, Jordan. Pp. 11-11.
Rodríguez JP (2021) Foreword. In: Soorae PS (ed.) Global conservation translocation perspectives: Case studies from around the globe. IUCN / SSC Conservation Translocation Specialist Group, Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi, Calgary Zoo. Canada, Gland, Switzerland. Pp. xi-xii.
Rodríguez JP (2021) Foreword. In: Chester Zoo (ed.) Preventing extinction in a changing world: a conservation masterplan for Chester Zoo 2021-2030. North of England Zoological Society (NEZS). Chester, United Kingdom. Pp. 2-2.
Science Panel for the Amazon (2021) Executive summary of the amazon assessment report 2021. In: Science Panel for the Amazon [Nobre C, Encalada A, Anderson E, Roca Alcazar FH, Bustamante M, Mena C, Peña-Claros M, Poveda G, Rodriguez JP, Saleska S, Trumbore S, Val AL, Villa Nova L, Abramovay R, Alencar A, Rodríguez Alzza C, Armenteras D, Artaxo P, Athayde S, Barretto Filho HT, Barlow J, Berenguer E, Bortolotto F, Costa FA, Costa MH, Cuvi N, Fearnside PM, Ferreira J, Flores BM, Frieri S, Gatti LV, Guayasamin JM, Hecht S, Hirota M, Hoorn C, Josse C, Lapola DM, Larrea C, LarreaAlcazar DM, Lehm Ardaya Z, Malhi Y, Marengo JA, Melack J, Moraes R M, Moutinho P, Murmis MR, Neves EG, Paez B, Painter L, Ramos A, Rosero-Peña MC, Schmink M, Sist P, ter Steege H, Val P, van der Voort H, Varese M & G Zapata-Ríos] (eds.) Amazon assessment report 2021. United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network. New York, USA. Pp. 1-48. DOI: 10.55161/RWSX6527.
Lovera M, Cuenca G, Fajardo L, Cáceres A & BE Guerra-Sierra (2022) AMF diversity in coffee and cacao agroforestry systems: importance for crop productivity and forest conservation. Chapter 5. In: Lugo MA & MC Pagano (eds.) Mycorrhizal fungi in South America: biodiversity, conservation and sustainable food production. Fungal Biology Series. Springer Nature. Switzerland. Pp. 107-127. ISSN 2198-7777. ISBN 978-3-03112993-3. DOI: 10.1007/978–3–031–12994–
Nassar JM (2022) La red latinoamericana y del Caribe para la conservación de los murciélagos (RELCOM). En: Barquez RM, Aguirre LF, Nassar JM, Burneo SF, Mancina CA & MM Díaz (eds.) Áreas y sitios de importancia para la conservación de los murciélagos en Latinoamérica y el Caribe. Red Latinoamericana y del Caribe para la Conservación de los Murciélagos. Yerba Buena, Tucumán, Argentina. Pp. 21-26. ISBN 978-987-88-6267-5.
Silva-Flores P, Neves MA, Weidlich EWA, Fajardo L, Acuña L, Aguilera C, Godoy R, Duarte M, Cabrera A & R Santelices (2022) Mycorrhizas and ecological restoration in South America. Chapter 21. In: Lugo MA & MC Pagano (eds.) Mycorrhizal fungi in South America: biodiversity, conservation and sustainable food production. Fungal Biology Series. Springer Nature. Switzerland. Pp. 431-443. ISSN 2198-7777. ISBN 978-3-03112993-3. DOI: 10.1007/978–3–031–12994–0_21.
Nassar JM (2023) Glossophaga longirostris (Miller’s long-tongued bat). In: Kurta A & A Rodríguez-Durán (eds.) Bats of the west indies: a natural history and field guide. Cornell University Press. Ithaca, New York. Pp. 259-264.
Viloria ÁL (2023) Importancia del ambiente en el desarrollo integral de los espacios insulares y marítimos de Venezuela. En: Parra-Montes de Oca LI & NA Cifuentes Gil (comps.) Bicentenario de la Batalla Naval del Lago de Maracaibo: 1823-2023. Por el rescate ambiental de la cuenca del Lago de Maracaibo. Colección Tiempo Histórico. Editorial Universidad Bolivariana de Venezuela-Centro de Estudios Ambientales, UBV. Caracas, Venezuela. Pp. 52-82. ISBN 978-980-404-147-1.
Dobson AP, Nowak K & JP Rodríguez (2024) Conservation biology, discipline of. In: Scheiner SM (ed.) Encyclopedia of biodiversity. Volume 4. 3rd ed. Academic Press. Oxford, England. Pp. 562-574.
Rodríguez JP & RW Jabado (2024) Foreword. In: Leadbitter D, Sadovy de Mitcheson Y & NBW Macfarlane (eds.) Unselective, unsustainable, and unmonitored trawl fisheries? Situation analysis with case studies from Southeast and East Asia. IUCN. Gland, Switzerland. Pp. vii-viii.
Rodríguez JP, Walker K & A Andrade (2024) Foreword: the future of vegetable oils. In: Meijaard E, Virah-Sawmy M, Newing HS, Ingram V, Holle MJM, Pasmans T, Omar S, van den Hombergh H, Unus N, Fosch A, Ferraz de Arruda H, Allen J, Tsagarakis K, Ogwu MC, Diaz-Ismael A, Hance J, Moreno Y, O’Keeffe S, Slavin J, Slingerland M, Meijaard EM, Macfarlane N, Jimenez R, Wich S & D Sheil (eds.) Exploring the future of vegetable oils. Oil crop implications – Fats, forests, forecasts, and futures. IUCN, SNSB. Gland, Switzerland. Pp. xiii-ix.
Debrot AO, Boeken M, Noort B, van der Wal JT, Simal F & JM Nassar (2025) Conservation state of the bats of the caribbean Netherlands. Chapter 21. In: Debrot AO, Henkens RJHG, Verweij PJFM, van den Burg MP, Meesters EH (eds.) State of nature report for the Caribbean Netherlands, 2024: a second 6-year assessment of the conservation state, threats and management implications for habitats and species in the Caribbean Netherlands. Wageningen Marine Research report: C001/25. Wageningen Marine Research (WMR), Wageningen University & Research (WUR). IJmuiden, Netherlands. Pp. 240-253. DOI: 10.18174/684783.
Thielen D, Schuchmann K-L, Ramoni-Perazzi P, Marquez M, Rojas W, Quintero JI & MI Marques (2020) Quo vadis Pantanal? Expected precipitation extremes and drought dynamics from changing sea surface temperature. PLoS One 15(1):e0227437. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0227437.
Ramoni-Perazzi P, Passamani M, Thielen D & C Padovani (2021) The traditional or the modern? a vision of the information from the brazilian weather stations network. Revista Brasileira de Paleontología 36(3):351-366. DOI: 10.1590/0102–77863630115.
Thielen D, Ramoni-Perazzi P, Marquez M, Quintero JI, Soto-Werschitz IA, Rojas W, Thielen K & ML Puche (2021) Hydroclimatological extreme events affecting the DaulePeripa Reservoir (coast of Ecuador) – Historical dynamics and teleconnections. Revista de Climatología 21:127-145.
Thielen D, Ramoni-Perazzi P, Puche ML, Marquez M, Quintero JI, Rojas W, SotoWerschitz IA, Thielen K, Nunes A & R Libonati (2021) The pantanal under siege-on the origin, dynamics and forecast of the megadrought severely affecting the largest wetland in the world. Water 13(21):3034. DOI: 10.3390/w13213034.
Ramoni-Perazzi P, Passamani M, Thielen D, Padovani C & MA Arizapana-Almonacid (2022) BrazilClim: the overcoming of limitations of preexisting bioclimate data. International Journal of Climatology 42(3):1645-1659. DOI: 10.1002/joc.7325.
Thielen D, Ramoni-Perazzi P, Puche ML, Marquez M, Quintero JI, Rojas W, Quintero A, Bianchi G, Soto-Werschitz IA & MA Arizapana-Almonacid (2022) Effect of extreme El Niño events on the precipitations of Ecuador. EGUsphere:1-32. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere–2022–763.
Thielen DR, Ramoni-Perazzi P, Puche ML, Marquez M, Quintero JI, Rojas W, Quintero A, Bianchi G, Soto-Werschitz IA & MA Arizapana-Almonacid (2023) Effect of extreme El Niño events on the precipitation of Ecuador. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 23(4):1507-1527. DOI: 10.5194/nhess–23–1507-2023.
Valeria Chacón V, Escalona-Cruz ME, Briceño Z, Díaz A, Péfaur J, Thielen DR & G Bianchi (2023) Dinámica estacional de la diversidad de invertebrados epigeos en el enclave semiárido de Lagunillas, Mérida, Venezuela. Seasonal dynamics of the diversity of epigeal invertebrates in the semiarid enclave of Lagunillas, Mérida, Venezuela. BioLlania 16:124-137.
Miranda VFVV, dos Santos DM, Peres LF, Salvador C, Nieto R, Müller GV, Thielen DR & R Libonati (2024) Heat stress in South America over the last four decades: a bioclimatic analysis. Theoretical and applied climatology. Theoretical and Applied Climatology 155:911-928. DOI: 10.1007/s00704–023–04668–x.
Thielen DR, Puche ML, Ramoni Perazzi P, Quintero JI, Bianchi G, Zamora-Ledezma E, Quintero A, Marquez M & W Rojas (2024) Respuestas de las precipitaciones en Venezuela al actual calentamiento sin precedentes de las aguas oceánicas globales. Revista de Climatología 24:22-43. DOI: 10.59427/rcli/2024/v24.22–
Cobarrubia-Russo S, Briceño Y, Sánchez L, Velásquez G, Thielen DR, Quintero-Torres E, Molero-Lizarraga A & JP Rodríguez (2025) Overlap of predator foraging and fishing over a cyclical annual biomass source in the south Caribbean. Regional Studies in Marine Science 81:103936. DOI: 10.1016/j.rsma.2024.103936.
Moreira GA, Carbone S, Guerrero-Rascado JL, Andrade IS, Cacheffo A, Vélez-Pereira AM, Zamora-Ledezma E, Thielen D, Gomes AA, Duarte ESF, Landulfo E, Lopes FJS, Aveiro HMP, da Silva JJ, Pallotta J, Pelicer LS, Souza LGE, Tames MF, Costa MJ, Puig MMC, Puche Cárdenas ML, Rosa NR, Cariñanos P & TP Diaz (2025) Evidence of the consequences of the prolonged fire season on air quality and public health from 2024 São Paulo (Brazil) data. Scientific Reports 15:28337. DOI: 10.1038/s41598–025–08542w.
